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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Friday, 27 April 2007 | |
  
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IBM's collaborator on the project is Brazilian online games company Hoplon Entertainment. The idea is that the Cells will handle compute-intensive tasks needed to model a virtual world such as simulating the movement of objects under gravity, while the mainframe looks after functions such as managing large numbers of users, billing, security and communicating with the real world. Mainframes provide a high-bandwidth environment enabling hundreds of processors to communicate much more rapidly than is possible via a network of separate computers. Once labelled as dinosaur technology, mainframes have been reinvented as super-servers capable of handling massive numbers of transactions per second. The project could also result in systems for other types of business applications that are computationally intensive. IBM did not indicate when the first hybrid system will be completed.{moscomment} |
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